My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
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ERIC BURDON I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
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NE-YO Jagged Edge is one of my favorite R&B groups.
TY DOLLA SIGN My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ...
JOHN OATES My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, s...
ANDRA DAY But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&a...
JENNIFER LOPEZ When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R...
GARY CLARK, JR. There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic...
DAVID GUETTA I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
WIZ KHALIFA Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove...
CHUCK EDDY When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin...
NEIL PEART I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin...
JAMIE FOXX Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop s...
AL JARREAU To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
CHRIS CORNELL I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were somet...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's...
BECKY G My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o...
CHRIS STAPLETON When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda...
BEBE REXHA I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
LIL UZI VERT John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool,...
HALSTON SAGE I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to ...
KEVIN MCKIDD I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk abo...
GALLANT My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOW As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
JACOB LATIMORE I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
L'WREN SCOTT I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS MOST DAYS MY LIFE
CAN BE SUMMED UP IN
MOVIE QUOTES
AND
HIP HOP AND R&B LYR...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER His style is sort of pop, like Billy Joel or Elton John.
CHRIS BRANDON I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
BRETT FAVRE It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R...
JANELLE MONAE In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG A first for Consumption, I think, We're playing stripped-down acoustic, which is how our songs start...
GINA TURNER It was originally billed as acoustic but I think we'll do it as a full band, with somebody playing a...
ADAM SCHLESINGER The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did f...
CAMILLE PAGLIA You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson....
AUSTIN MAHONE Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
AUTRE NE VEUT I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&...
KEHLANI I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country ...
JANE BADLER R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t...
BABYFACE I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,...
DANIEL EK I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing grow...
DREW HULL Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my ...
BRITTANY HOWARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind o...
ASHTHON JONES The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai...
THE WEEKND I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&a...
LEXI THOMPSON My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more in...
ALISON MOYET I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates video...
DARYL HALL Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
DELTA GOODREM Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
LANCE GROSS I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn&...
FKA TWIGS I never really enjoyed playing acoustic before. But now I really kind of like it. I find myself play...
JACK O'SHEA I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the ...
JOSE JAMES I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
DAN FOGELBERG My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school ...
BLAKE ANDERSON A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got...
KIP WINGER My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par...
JOHN LEGEND Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
INARA GEORGE Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bot...
APRIL GORNIK I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Will...
DONNY OSMOND You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...
KEN GRIMWOOD Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece ba...
THOMAS RHETT I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES When you pick up an acoustic guitar,
CLINT BLACK I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing...
MARCUS BELGRAVE The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do...
WILLIE NELSON I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve...
BILLY PAUL I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's...
DAVID SANBORN I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I p...
MAC DEMARCO My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's ...
KIESZA When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen...
CHRIS CORNELL I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do...
TREY SONGZ Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or ca...
KELIS Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi...
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JOYCE CAROL OATES There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Death is just the last scene of the last act.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...
JOYCE CAROL OATES What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
JOYCE CAROL OATES ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY